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Stéphane Ducasse

New version of Little Number Chapter

Hi guys

I took into account the remarks of mariano and I imagine that the chapter improved. It can be obvious for some people
but I like to make sure that we all find this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on it.
Now if somebody wants to extend and improve, he/she welcome.

I will continue to work on the others chapters.

Stef
A guy that truly believe that software is only done when the documentation is packed too.

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larrry

Re: New version of Little Number Chapter

What book is this?

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys

I took into account the remarks of mariano and I imagine that the chapter improved. It can be obvious for some people
but I like to make sure that we all find this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on it.
Now if somebody wants to extend and improve, he/she welcome.

I will continue to work on the others chapters.

Stef
A guy that truly believe that software is only done when the documentation is packed too.

Mariano Martinez Peck

Re: New version of Little Number Chapter

These chapters are drafts for the future book Pharo By Example 2.
The first one is in: http://pharobyexample.org/

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Larry White <[hidden email]> wrote:

What book is this?

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys

I took into account the remarks of mariano and I imagine that the chapter improved. It can be obvious for some people
but I like to make sure that we all find this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on it.
Now if somebody wants to extend and improve, he/she welcome.

I will continue to work on the others chapters.

Stef
A guy that truly believe that software is only done when the documentation is packed too.

--
Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Mariano Martinez Peck

Re: [Pharo-project] New version of Little Number Chapter

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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:41 AM, John Toohey <[hidden email]> wrote:

Nice chapter. Working some of the examples, and with the latest 1.3
release, bitString is not available. Is this part of 1.4?

Yes.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 02:21, Stéphane Ducasse

<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I took into account the remarks of mariano and I imagine that the chapter improved. It can be obvious for some people
> but I like to make sure that we all find this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on it.
> Now if somebody wants to extend and improve, he/she welcome.
>
> I will continue to work on the others chapters.
>
>
>
>
>

> Stef
> A guy that truly believe that software is only done when the documentation is packed too.
>
>
>

--

~JT

--
Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Igor Stasenko

Re: New version of Little Number Chapter

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2r1101
returns 13

13 printStringBase: 2
returns '1101'

Integer readFrom: '1101' base: 2
returns 13

maybe 'answers' instead of returns?
since in smalltalk we're sending messages and getting answers :)

On 11 September 2011 09:21, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I took into account the remarks of mariano and I imagine that the chapter improved. It can be obvious for some people
> but I like to make sure that we all find this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on it.
> Now if somebody wants to extend and improve, he/she welcome.
>
> I will continue to work on the others chapters.
>
>
>
>
>
> Stef
> A guy that truly believe that software is only done when the documentation is packed too.
>
>
>

--
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.

Helene Bilbo

Re: New version of Little Number Chapter

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Stéphane Ducasse wrote

It can be obvious for some people but I like to make sure that we all find this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on it.

Hi,
this chapter is very interesting and understandable.

The one question i have is of course - how do the other numbers work, the ones that are not „little“ ones. I don’t know if you plan other chapters (they would be very welcome) or if you could add a distinction between the different kind of numbers in the introduction to this chapter?

One tiny remark: „gender“ on page 14 is not a very good example to encode in one bit. As everyone knows, there are as many genders as there are people :)
Best regards, Helene.

Stéphane Ducasse

Re: New version of Little Number Chapter

On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Helene Bilbo wrote:

>
> Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>> It can be obvious for some people but I like to make sure that we all find
>> this obvious. Because it is not difficult once you spend a little time on
>> it.
>>
>
> Hi,
> this chapter is very interesting and understandable.
>
> The one question i have is of course - how do the other numbers work, the
> ones that are not „little“ ones. I don’t know if you plan other chapters
> (they would be very welcome) or if you could add a distinction between the
> different kind of numbers in the introduction to this chapter?

I do not know :)
I would like to learn that and I would love if somebody would explain that to me :)

Did you see the float chapter I wrote?

>
> One tiny remark: „gender“ on page 14 is not a very good example to encode in
> one bit. As everyone knows, there are as many genders as there are people :)
> Best regards, Helene.
>
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